The Global Text Project

The Global Text Project creates open content electronic textbooks that will be freely available from a website. The goal is to make textbooks available to the many who cannot afford them. The Global Text Project, based at the University of Georgia, has been using O3Spaces for about 2 years. Workplace is used as the center piece in the collaborative process of editing, composing and publishing of electronic books for university students in developing economies. In this process having a single secure central repository available for storing and versioning chapters and graphics, as well as the final book is essential.

“Since the Global Text Project has an ever changing group of (student) volunteers working on the project, it is essential to have a server based repository available with easy to use user management and version control.” Says Rick Watson, Co-lead of the project. “We also use the webdav connectivity of O3Spaces to make all chapters publicly available in open document format. The project's book database links directly to webdav. This means that once a book is in the system, there is no need to update the database when a new version of a book is released. It is all seamless for us.”